Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grasp of U.S. public affairs was about what might have been expected from a nice old man who loved conversation of all kinds but thought that all elections were won on issues. He had read the Federalist Papers, admired Tom Paine and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and thought Henry Wallace a fine fellow...
Says plump, bespectacled Mrs. Shuttle, wife of Cerne Abbas' stationer: "He's a real nice gentleman." She describes how Lord Digby stands behind the van bellowing cheerfully: "What do you want this morning, Mrs. Shuttle?" Mrs. Shuttle gives her order and hands over her shopping basket: "Then, like as not, he'll say, 'Now don't you worry, Mrs. Shuttle, I'll take it for you,' and he marches through the shop into the kitchen with the goods. Now there ain't many people who'd do that for you, lord...
...good conversationalist, a chain smoker, a man who carries his vodka well. But he may drink with a reporter one day, baffle him by ignoring him when in official company the next. Last year he escorted Mrs. Winston Churchill on her Russian tour, impressed her as a nice young...
Godfrey took many a detour on the road to radio fame & fortune. He made a "nice dollar" selling cemetery lots as "investments," played M.C. in a Chicago saloon, "supported by the first nude chorus in vaudeville," and did a hitch as a Coast Guard radioman before he ever stood up to a microphone...
...young ladies are nice to look at, and Patric Knowles, as the Duke Hope pretends to be, sings some pleasant songs. But only Hope and Schildkraut, as a villainous Spanish general, know how to put a really fine edge on all this sort of foolishness...